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Contra Costa firefighters battle overnight grass fires, house blaze

Contra Costa firefighters were kept busy overnight with two grass fires near the Bay Point shoreline and a house blaze in Brentwood, according to fire dispatchers.

The first grass fire was reported about 9:30 p.m. Monday along the railroad tracks near the intersection of Solano and Suisun avenues in Bay Point. It burned two acres before it was extinguished by the Contra Costa Fire District.

A half hour later, a second grass fire broke out along the same tracks, only two miles northwest near Port Chicago Highway and Driftwood Drive. That fire burned half an acre.

Firefighters from the East Contra Costa Fire District were called about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to a single-story home on Tradition Way in Brentwood, where they needed about 30 minutes to corral a single-alarm fire that started on the roof then spread to the backyard.

None of the overnight fires caused injuries and what sparked them was not immediately known.